A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Pott, August

POTT, August, born November 7, 1806, at Nordheim, Hanover, where his father was Stadtmusikus. He adopted the violin as his instrument, and shortly after Spohr's appointment to be Hof-Capellmeister at Cassel, went there as his pupil, and there made his first public appearance in 1824. He occupied the next few years in travelling through Denmark and Germany. In 1832 he was appointed Concertmeister to the Duke of Oldenburg, and afterwards advanced to the post of Capellmeister at the same court. This he resigned in 1861, and is now (1880) living at Gratz. In 1838 he visited England, and played Lipinski's concerto in B minor at the Philharmonic on May 21 with great applause. The critic of the 'Musical World' speaks with enthusiasm of the extraordinary power of his tone, his great execution, and the purity of his style. He has published two Concertos, and various smaller pieces for the violin with and without orchestra. [App. p.751 "He died in Nov. 1883."]

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